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The Ordeal, by Charles Egbert Craddock
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Title: The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
Author: Charles Egbert Craddock
Illustrator: Douglas Duer
Release Date: November 13, 2006 [EBook #19776]
Language: English
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THE ORDEAL
A MOUNTAIN ROMANCE OF TENNESSEE
BY CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK
AUTHOR OF
"THE RAID OF THE GUERILLA," "THE PROPHET OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS," "THE FAIR MISSISSIPPIAN," ETC.
WITH A FRONTISPIECE IN COLOR BY DOUGLAS DUER
PHILADELPHIA & LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1912
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1912
PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.
Transcriber's Notes:
This paragraph in Chapter II. is obviously a printer's error:
Here they found a change of sentiment prevailing. Although failing in no observance of cou